Mariano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in the “Protein phase transitions in health and disease” lab, under the supervision of Drs. Benedetta Bolognesi and Ben Lehner. Mariano aims to understand how amino acids changes affects amyloid aggregation using massively parallel reporter assays. He received his Ph.D. from National University of Cordoba, Argentina, where he studied how variants in sodium iodide symporter (NIS) may cause congenital hypothyroidism, supervised by Dr. Juan Pablo Nicola. As part of his Ph.D. training, Mariano did a short-term fellowship in Yale University under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Carrasco.
Teams
Variant Effect Seminar Series Committee